Improvement in clothes-driers



AENT FFIE.

JOHN THEOBALD, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

164,338, dated J une 8, 1875; application led February 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN THEOBALD, of Cleveland, in vthe county ofCuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented an Improved Clothes Drier, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part hereof.

My invention consists in the combination, in a clothes-drier, of theparts hereinafter particularly described, whereby bars or arms of wood,arranged in slotted openings in a semicircular bracket secured upon theupper end of a standard or frame, may, when the drier is in use, bedrawn up and outward through the said slotted openings, and, restingtherein, form radiating arms, upon which fabrics may be hung, and whichare prevented from passing entirely through the said slotted openings bypins fixed near the lowerl or inner ends of the bars, and whereby, whenthe drier is not in use, the said bars or arms may be folded back andallowed to drop downward through the slotted openings in the bracket,and rest at their lower ends in a cup or base secured upon the bottomot' the standard or frame, the bars being guided to their proper placesin thc said cup or base and retained in orderlypositions therein bymeansof a semicircular guard or band secured to, and passing around, thefront of the frame, and a conical guide-plate extending from the cup orbase part way up the face ofthe standard.

Figure l is a front elevation.- ot' my drier with the bars removed. Fig.2 is asimilar view of the same, showing the bars folded back when not inuse. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same, showing the bars extendedradiating from the bracket. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal central sectionalview of the same. Fig. 5 isa side view of the end of one of the bars,showing the pin ixed therein. Fig. G is a sectional view on the line a;fr, Fig. 5.

B is a semicircular bracket, made preferably of cast-iron, secured uponthe upper end of the frame or standard S, as shown, and is composed ofthe plate p and therim r, in which rim are the slotted openings s s. ccare bars or arms of wood, arranged to slide easily in the slottedopenings s s, and having the pins e l.fixed in their sides near theirlower or inner ends, as shown. G is a semicircular band or guard,extending around the front of, and secured at either end upon, the sideofthe frame S. O is a semicircular cup or base upon the lower end ot'the standard S, and D is a conicalshaped guide-plate, extending from thebottom ofthe cup part way up the face of the standard S, to which it issecured, as shown.

Now, it is evident that when the drier is in use, the arms c, beingdrawn up and outward through the slotted openings s, will extendradiating from the bracket B, as shown in Fig. 3, and will be sustainedin said slotted openings by resting on their lower edges against theedge of the rim r, and,at theirinner end, against the plate p, and, bymeans ofthe pins e, will be prevented from passing entirely through theslotted openings s and falling from the bracket, as shown in Fig. 4. Itis also evident that when the drier is not in use the arms al may befolded back, and allowed to drop downward through the slotted openings.s in the bracket B, and that by means of the band or guard Gr and theguide plate D the bars will be guided to their proper places in the cupor base C, and retained in orderly position therein, as shown in Figs. 2and 4.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination, in a clothes-drier, of the standard S, the bracket B,composed of the plate p and rim r, which has the slotted openings s, thebars or arms a., provided with the pins c, the band or guard G, the cupor base C, and the conical guide-plate D, constructed and arranged tooperate as described.

JOHN '.IIEIEOBALD.l

Witnesses:

FRED. H. B1ERMANN, W. POEHLMANN, Jr.

